Martha McSally

Martha McSally (22 March 1966-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-AZ 2) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Ron Barber.

Biography
Martha McSally was born in Warwick, Rhode Island on 22 March 1966, and she graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1988. She served in the Air Force until 2010, rising to the rank of Colonel. She flew close air support aircraft over Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Southern Watch (the first woman to fly in combat following the 1991 lifting of the prohibition on female combat pilots), and she also became the first female commander of a USAF fighter squadron. In 2014, she was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican congresswoman from Arizona's 2nd congressional district. She opposed abortion in nearly all cases, did not endorse Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, supported local control of education, supported environmentalism and conservation, supported a hawkish foreign policy, opposed Obamacare, supported tax reform, and opposed federal intervention in the case of LGBT marriage rights.